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The running joke about NASA is it only makes headlines when it screws up. After the early glory of the Mercury and Apollo missions, and the exciting advances of space shuttles and super-powered telescopes, the space agency became boring – ...

Almost forgotten in a legislative session that gave us property tax caps, same-sex marriage and beefed-up jobs programs, was an ethics reform package that its chief backer – Gov. Andrew Cuomo – says will change forever how business gets done ...

There has never been much love lost between the local building trades and rival United Service Workers Local 355, but the relationship soured considerably in 2007. That summer, after more than two years of foot dragging that prompted a lawsuit ...

Jay Salpeter, the former homicide detective whose work helped free Martin Tankleff, last year got a phone call about a prisoner whose case felt strangely familiar. It was Patrick Schoendorf, convicted of murder based on a confession taken the same ...

The New York attorney general’s office said Wednesday it is investigating whether Fidelity Investments was given incentives by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to sell auction-rate securities to investors. Investigators are examining if Fidelity pitched auction-rate securities that were underwritten by ...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday he is expanding his investigation into the collapse of the auction-rate securities market to include JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wachovia Corp. Last week, Cuomo’s office and the Securities and ...